Alice Sterling Honig, PhD, was professor emerita in the Syracuse University department of child and family studies. She devoted her career to discovering ways to best nurture and support the development of infants and toddlers. For 36 years, she directed Syracuse University's National Quality Infant/Toddler Caregiving Workshop. Additionally, she taught courses in parenting; prosocial development; observation and assessment; cross-cultural and language development; and research methods in studying children.
Dr. Honig was the author of over 600 articles and chapters, and she regularly presented training sessions and keynote addresses that promoted high-quality child care all over the United States and in several other countries. For a decade, Dr. Honig was program director of the Children’s Center, a pioneer enrichment project serving teen parents and children. As a licensed psychologist in the state of New York, Dr. Honig carried out assessments of infant, preschool, and school-age children’s cognitive and emotional development.
